PrepTest 115, Section 3, Question 27
The following passage was written in the mid-1990s.(454 more words not shown)
The passage supports each of(4 more words not shown)
- AIt is unlikely(16 more words not shown)
- BCriminalizing unauthorized digitalization(15 more words not shown)
- CWhen copyright law(23 more words not shown)
- DThe number of(16 more words not shown)
- EUnder current law,(20 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
We need the one inference the discussion doesn't support. There isn't a single precise prediction to make here. We'll check the choices against what we know, especially the distinction between a problem the writer identifies and a legal outcome the writer actually settles.
Working the answers
- A
The text says a prohibition might be “virtually unenforceable” because so many people can copy and distribute material so easily. Detecting every instance would be unlikely. That follows from the enforcement problem.
- B
If information belongs to its creator, penalizing unauthorized reproduction fits that ownership view. This is consistent with the publishing community's position.
- CCorrect
This resolves something explicitly left open. The writer asks whether only the original digitalization would be criminal or each later copy would be a separate instance of piracy. We aren't told the revised law will prohibit those later copies.
- D
This gives me more pause because we aren't handed a forecast about easier technology. But the discussion connects the scale of the copying problem with how simple copying and distribution already are. Making them still easier supports a likely increase. That is an inference, not a quoted prediction; C, by contrast, supplies a definite answer to an unresolved legal question.
- E
The current law allows generous exemptions for private study or research. The reference to many academic users explains why that exemption matters online.
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